09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Wig out … Khruangbin. Onstage, the Texan trio Khruangbin are a strange sight to behold. At their sold-out show at London’s near-5,000 capacity O2 Academy Brixton last December, guitarist Mark Speer and bassist Laura Lee, dressed in long, black, heavily fringed wigs, sway in unison, […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 30 Jun 2020 21.36 BST Woodward Presbyterian, 2012Architect: Sidney Rose Badgley. Built: 1908. Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church is an imposing structure, designed according to the Akron plan of a central rotunda surrounded by Sunday school classrooms. The Akron plan was developed in the late 19th century and popular in that era. […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘Caustic musician’s musician’: John Martyn at home in Hastings, 8 September 1971. Photograph: Brian Cooke/Redferns By the time the mercurial, volatile singer-songwriter John Martyn heard that he had been awarded an OBE for his contribution to British music, he was in a wheelchair, having lost […]
15.25 BST Last modified on Mon 29 Jun 2020 21.07 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Masterclass … Kristen Stewart in Homemade. Photograph: Netflix Here is a short film anthology with a luxury gloss and prestige sheen, curated for Netflix by the Chilean director Pablo Larraín, his brother Juan de Dios Larraín and […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A mural in Lithuania: ‘The Obama administration was slow to notice that Russia was working flat out to help Donald Trump.’ Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images In 1972, Willy Brandt, the West German chancellor, faced a no-confidence vote tabled by the opposition conservatives. The omens didn’t […]
09.00 BST Last modified on Mon 29 Jun 2020 10.29 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Neeraj Kabi, left, plays an investigative journalist in Paatal Lok. Photograph: Amazon Prime Anushka Sharma is one of Bollywood’s best-known actors and is married to Virat Kohli, captain of the Indian cricket team. She recently co-produced Paatal […]
12.28 BST Last modified on Mon 29 Jun 2020 14.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump … a member of ‘one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families’. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump’s brother is making a second attempt to block publication of the much-anticipated book by their niece Mary […]
11.05 BST Last modified on Mon 29 Jun 2020 12.55 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I adore the sound of scissors, but nothing comes close to a guitar or a violin’ … António Variações. Photograph: Teresa Couto Pinto In the midst of wild olive trees, a muscular man sporting pink hair and […]
08.57 BST First published on Mon 29 Jun 2020 05.40 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 1:59 Beyoncé and Alicia Keys pay tribute to BLM movement at 2020 BET Awards – video highlights Beyoncé has been given the humanitarian award at the BET awards, using her speech to encourage viewers to […]
11.35 BST Last modified on Sun 28 Jun 2020 12.45 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Trump used the song You Can’t Always Get What You Want at his recent rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP The Rolling Stones are threatening Donald Trump with legal action for using their songs at […]
15.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘A cornerstone of contemporary pop’: Jessie Ware performing on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images Jessie Ware emerged in 2010, lending her silken vocals to electro producer SBTRKT. A solo career followed but, while the London singer-songwriter’s first three […]
07.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A Syrian family at the Boynuyogun refugee camp in Hatay, Turkey. Photograph: Burak Kara/Getty Images “A wild exodus has begun,” writes Sonia Shah early on in The Next Great Migration. “It is happening on every continent and in every ocean.” In response to the climate […]
10.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The Last of Us Part II’s Ellie. Photograph: Naughty Dog A withdrawn-looking 19-year-old leans against the bar in a rustic barn decorated with fairy lights, watching other people dance, taking nervous sips. She is looking at another young woman who is spinning around the room […]
07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email American carnage … from left: Hannibal Buress, Asa Akira and Eric Andre on The Eric Andre Show. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy There has only been one sketch that Eric Andre couldn’t get past the executives at Adult Swim. The suits didn’t bat an eyelid at […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Sat 27 Jun 2020 07.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Still heading for meltdown … Dark. Photograph: Netflix Halfway through the third and final season of Dark, it becomes – to all but the most dedicated student of the show – impossible to follow. It’s simply not […]
17.09 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 17.20 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Clockwise from top left, Josh Gad, Splash director Ron Howard, Tom Hanks and producer Brian Glazer. Photograph: YouTube Five of the top 10 films at the US box office last weekend were made by Steven Spielberg. Jurassic […]
16.53 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 16.54 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Trevor Noah: ‘It appears America isn’t just dealing with a deadly strain of coronavirus. It’s also dealing with a deadly strain of stupidity.” Photograph: YouTube Trevor Noah Several American states recorded their highest case totals of coronavirus […]
15.49 BST Last modified on Sat 27 Jun 2020 18.07 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from No Small Matter. ‘As a country, we have to decide: are we going to make this investment?’ Photograph: Stephanie Strauss Maria Hernandez, a single mother of four in Waco, Texas, ferries her children to […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 08.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Julie Delpy and Adam Goldberg in 2 Days in Paris, a film that reminds us you can be staying in a beautiful city with the person you love, and still have a miserable time. Photograph: AP Now […]
13.56 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Jun 2020 13.57 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Cole (voiced by Tituss Burgess) and Molly (voiced by Kristen Bell) in Central Park. Photograph: Apple TV+ On Wednesday, Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell, two white American actors, announced that they would step down from voicing their […]
13.34 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Jun 2020 19.18 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 20. Before You Go (2002) Lewis Gilbert directed Walters in her seminal movie debut, Educating Rita, and although this stagey and subdued film (Gilbert’s last) doesn’t have anything like the fizz of that, Walters gives it her […]
07.25 BST Last modified on Mon 22 Jun 2020 07.26 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace in Lockout, a film that isn’t remotely original, but remains an unabashed hoot. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Lockout – a schlocky, daft and quite exceptionally loud 2012 sci-fi action flick from the trashier […]
14.30 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 20.50 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘A story which appears to demonstrate that fact is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction’ … Boris Johnson at Downing Street on 23 June. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street/Crown Copyright/PA Michael Winterbottom is set to bring Boris Johnson’s […]
00.01 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Sir Ian McKellen welcomed the opportunity to re-examine Hamlet. Photograph: Magnus Sundholm/Rex/Shutterstock The age of Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been the subject of much debate. But no one has mooted that he is 81. Regardless, Sir Ian McKellen will play the role – normally a star […]
17.31 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 17.12 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dixie Chicks. The US country trio Dixie Chicks have changed their name to the Chicks because of connotations with the word Dixie, which was used to describe the Confederate US states that upheld slavery. The Chicks released […]
13.48 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Jun 2020 20.45 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Elton John and Renate Blauel on their wedding day in 1984. Photograph: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images Sir Elton John’s ex-wife, Renate Blauel, has launched legal proceedings against the singer at the high court, in a rare intervention by […]
13.26 BST Last modified on Thu 25 Jun 2020 13.28 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Woody Allen at a press conference in San Sebastián last year with the cast and crew of Rifkin’s Festival. Photograph: Javier Etxezarreta/EPA Rifkin’s Festival, the new film by Woody Allen, has been selected to open the San […]
13.00 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 18.05 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars. ‘Evolved into the role of the pop star’ … Arca. Photograph: Hart Leshkina Time, from Arca’s fourth album KiCk i, reduces a booming, bass-heavy 4/4 kick drum to […]
15.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Playing it safe … Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams. Photograph: John Wilson/AP Not so much a comedy, more a strained, movie-length featuremercial for the Eurovision Song Contest brand, hung on a plot borrowed from The Producers, and originally planned to coincide with the now cancelled […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2020 07.03 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email This week I should have been experiencing and photographing the Glastonbury festival for the first time. That it would have been my first is for me is matter of some regret as I have spent a long […]